what’s cool is that cladistically penguins are marine reptiles too 😨

It's like the fish were the natives, the marine reptiles the first colonizers, then seabirds the new colonizers

@@GundemaroSagrajas nah trilobites where the natives where the microbrd

Actually 5 Millions years

Nice stale meme well done

Kowalski, report!

Yeah, that what beaches are for! 😃 🌊

Haha

@@biohazard724 Skipper, it's some sort of moving picture detailing the evolution of our ancestors 🧐🐧👨‍🔬😝

Here in NZ we prefer the 'East Coast wave' these days. Ask our Prime Minister for a demo ;)

Dangit now I'll have that song stuck in my head all day!

@@MargoMB19 it could be a worse song tbh

@@choryllis6646 the snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen~

Penguins may have gone a little way past the reef.

*slow clap*

Skipper would be proud to know about his big relatives.

i really wanna date the narrator , she is a beauty with a brain

Analski, kowalisys

Flightless birds of all sizes as well. So New Zealand, the Land of the Birds.

thats actually cool ngl

That's alot of penguins. *I wanna live there-*

Flightless bird machine

🥝

I would run anyway

I'd like to hug it

If they existed...surely a zookeeper would let one loose on Halloween.

And or a Tall Nun!!!😅 Sister Michael from the Antarctic congregation of the holly penguin!🤣🐧

*I would like to pet this creature*

You are correct

i thought i was mistaken from hearing birb

Came to comments for this

Loved that part.

D I V E

Well, at the time New Zealand was not that different to other landmasses in terms of predators, not only because of a lack of many large predators globally, but also because it still had animals like crocodilians and small mammals that would later go extinct

Yeah..when we broke away from Aus, only mammals that would've been capable of travelling over could have made it on land. Therefore we only have bats as our only indigenous mammal, they flew over. no snakes as well. Since flying meant extra energy, the birbs decided to just live on the floor or low branches. Sadly, humans introduced rats, possums, cats and dogs which killed off much of them including the majestic moa. Local tribes or early english settlements also hunted em quite a lot since they were easy af to snag.

@@lily4351 i love the fact that u used birbs

Then flightless birds started to eat each other, and there was a desperate, failing attempt to re-evolve flight.😁 Overhead, bats laughed.

@@icollectstories5702 LOL

Birb

The subtitles also said "smol birb"

I had to rewind that, too! Hee hee... She's cute, saying it. Still speaks better than most! overall. One word out of 1000? Yeah, 99.9%= A, on a curve, though? I'd give an A+. My neighbor I baby sat for called"Fire Trucks", "Fire F*cks".. I never corrected him, since his dad didn't...

@@prismaticc_abyss I rewatched it with the captions on, and it made it even better.

Call me rude but that's the only thing I didn't like about the video. Evolution to me isn't playful

I wasted my time reading this. So I’ma waste it commenting.

Well, at least you now know there were 1.5 meter tall penguins a while ago.

😂😂

Reminds me of the penguins from at the mountans of madness

In SI, M is always million, and m is always meter, unless used as a unit prefix. Then it means milli (thousandth), as in mm.

I'm really grateful for this comment because they didn't mention it in the video at all and I wouldn't have known they were cute otherwise. Thank you.

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@@chalkiewithdots so true

Too bad they’re extinct, they were big enough to ride piggyback on land, or ride while whey swim.

I see your penguin and raise you a shoebill.

Pelicans not far behind

You feathered freak Oh sorry I'm a scaly dinosaur fan I'm sorry for getting emotional there.

Same!

newb mann Some dinosaurs had feathers too! Do you try to avoid that possibility?

That sounds pretty interesting

They have those strange gills I would think that’s caused by juvinileism or whatever it’s called

Axolotls didn't evolve this. They do indeed have an adult form, but the few habitats that they live in (as they are extremely endangered) lack a specific chemical that triggers their metamorphosis (I believe this is iodine). Axolotls have been made to become adults in laboratory environments. However, neotony (which is when an organism stays in its juvenile stage) has evolved several times, and so must have some evolutionary benefit in some cases. In fact, there is even a theory that all modern chordates evolved from the neotenous larvae of an early tunicate (tunicates, or urochordates, are fascinating in and of themselves; their larvae have a notochord and are free swimming, but the adults lack the former and are sessile!).

@@themicroplanetblog1316 it's possible to force an axolotl to metamorphose. The result looks like a tiger salamander, but the transition is unnatural and shortens the axolotls life so the axolotl has physically evolved to not react to those pheromones as strongly as tiger salamanders And is also incapable of producing them. Edit: sorry for the misunderstanding I typed to soon, that was my fault. But not to be rude your comment is kinda misleading, in the start it says that axolotls didn’t evolve this then it talks about Neotony and that’s a form of evolution?

@@themicroplanetblog1316 they're sterile if you do thar are they not?

@@Makaneek5060 you've got no idea how long I've been waiting for this lawl XD

Lmaoooo Humans probably COULD go sledding on some of these, and I... Would probably try to train one to let people, if they were still around.

I luv dis commuent

"Sure, bro. C'mon, let's go!"

Those giant penguins sound kinda like an avatar animal...

These birb stock broker's might make me go broke

@Timothy Somerville ahem archaeopteryx ahem Buriolestes do I need to go on While I agree that evolution is not "proven" there is much more behind the theory which is what it is than just faith Also I know technically they are no transitional fossils in the same vein there is no "Asian culture" there both colloquial term but both what else would you call a species such as the ones I listed above. There's a reason why the term is in use it simplifies a very complex thing.

@Timothy Somerville sigh you realize that there is literally no single "Asian culture" but rather dozens of them you realize Arab,Chinese,Tibetan,Siberian,Japanese,Kazakh,Okanawin,and Indonesian cultures are all from Asian but which one would be "Asian culture" then? Also I only used 2 Greco-Roman words there and it was Buriolestes and archaeopteryx both of which were real creatures which you would know If you did real research yourself rather than depending on others to do research for you I HOPE YOU REALIZE REAL LIFE IS NOTHING LIKE SCHOOL NO ONE WILL PROVIDE REAL "PROOF" SINCE HARD PROOF IS SUBJECTIVE ANYWAYS. BTW you really should at the very least do research for yourself since if you did you would know most paleontologists hate using the word "transitional fossil" since we'll it's not like they never stop "transitioning" they always are it's just "transitional fossils" are the clearest example of it. And if you REALLY TO LAZY TO DO RESEARCH ON YOUR OWN THEN FINE HERE YOU GO en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactritida, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenia, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapodophis, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrinaxodon, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutchicetus, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithecus, do I need to go on? There are examples of this JUST DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH OK.

@Timothy Somerville All species are transitional to new species or going extinct. The evidence for transitions in the history of life is overwhelming, not just from abundant fossils but every other line of evidence as well. Evolution is a fact, observed every day in every way and inferred from past evidence. No faith required. Just the facts. BTW, science doesn't do proof. That's for math. Science does confirmation of testable predictions or showing them false.

@Timothy Somerville Actually it is. and observing the fossil record trhugout the eaons it is possible to observe the similarities between species, how the enviroment around them changed and how that change affected the pressures under which they lived, thus altering the way they evolve. Let's take the Titanoboa, per example: it is observable that these giant snakes lived in a period of great heat and increased biodiversity in the rivers of the region of moder Amazom, which gave them the means to be bigger. That's particulary noticeble when you observe that there was no colossal snakes before (when the dinossaurs had the upper niches ocupaied and would be to great a competition) nor after the titanoboas (coinciding with the cooling with the planet, which wouldn't allow the survival of such big reptails). There, an example of transition of snakes from normal and big sized, to gargantuan and then back to normal and big. In relation to the lexicon of our friend over there, I would like to remark that a word is not fancy just because you do not understand it. Greek and Latin terms are comom use in science because the first is a dead language and, thus, don't change over time, and the other is being used in the west for scientific naming since before Rome itself, so it is a basic pattern by now. Also, your argument about seeing an Asian Culture, in the way the colegue upwards presented and that you put it, is wrong, although he shows understanding of it while you do not. There is not something like a single "Asian Culture" given how big and diverse Asia is. So no, you have not seen, putting bluntly, "Asian Culture" unless you refering to a much major cultural spectrum which has in commom only it's location on a world map. Would be the same as saying you know Canada's culture because you were in Mexico and since they´re "near" than they the same. Furthermore, your proposition that since you haven't seen something, it isin't real is wrong. You cannot see, nor experience the crushing pressure of the sea floor, still, you trust the information that is sent to you that down there you would have every bone of your body flatenned by the weight of the sea alone. The universe is too big for us to explore and undertand it all in our short lives, so we need to relly on other people telling about things we ourselves have not seem and talk about the work of phenomena we do not understand. And while it is valid that we take everything with a grain of salt, if the vast majority of scientists have been suporting a given teory for centuries, with no new information ever questioning it, it stands to reason that is the truth, or at least, a sufficent version of the truth for or day and age, but a part of THE truth, notheless. It is the argument of the engineers: If you have the plans for a house but 99 of the hundred engineers you asked says the house would fall if built, you would not trust the single one who says it will stand. Also, reduce the insults, we are trying to make a civilized discussion here.

Tastes like fish!

I knew that. But did you know they can also surf?

Don't forget there beautiful musical talents

@@cintronproductions9430 I knew that. But did you know they also like to wear cute red and white hats?

Happy feet reference?

They also have brand loyalty for colas

*Cthulhu wants to know your location*

Jim Ferdinando I was hoping someone here would mention that.

So did Allan Poe

They didn't say anything about blind albino ones though.

Jack Grattan They’re the ones you really have to be careful with. Them and the shoggoths...

Atom-Phyr Royals are often goofy, to much inbreeding I guess!

Look up the cassowary. (shudder)

I just read the little Roly-Poly is the only creature of its kind on land. They are the link you are looking for, I believe. I think I saw a recent SciShow video discussing that

Chris P not really, it's a cool animal but it's still a crustacean. For example: the platypus isn't the missing link between reptiles and mammals, doesn't matter that it lays eggs like a reptile :)

DeluxXe Trash calm down, weevil underwood, they’ll get to it.

This!

Great idea! I would love that

I'd like to see one of that size

Probably because the niches were already occupied by mammals and fish.

In the book *After Man: A Zoology of the Future* by geologist Dougal Dixon, penguins did just that, after whales went extinct. Two species are depicted, the porpoise-like porpin and the baleen whale-like vortex.

i don't think being the size of a blue whale is really an option when you have to return to land to breed.

@@kelbyreid7254 Check out After Man. The book has a species of filter feeding penguin called the Vortex.

Is Waimanu Maori for penguin too?

Ocean camo: dark on top, light underneath. Good for hunters and hunted.

@Michael F. Tommey Not everything. The first reptiles, the first amphibians, the first fish, the first mammals, and maybe the first birds were quite small. Probably true for most vertebrates too. And prehistoric microbes were just as small as today's.

We know that it does. There are many, many cases of that happening all over the world with a range of unrelated species.

Yeah, new land predators spreading to the living habitats of the giant penguins might have wiped them out..

It certainly led to penguinism

New Zealand wasn't predator-free at the time? Neither was Antarctica - check out the video on Marsupials.

Look up the Chinese tonic, "Pantocrin", made from deer antler,, I read in the book, "Chinese Tonic Herbs", written by Ray T... ? ("Tenuchigowan", spelling phonetically as best i recall from 20 years ago).

I'll check that out, thank you

probably the first thing we call a deer got cancer in its horn buds (where the horns grow out of on the head), but it didn’t die and the cancer didn’t spread anywhere else

@@iainmawhinney8867 does this mean that one day the jackalope could be real?

@@iainmawhinney8867 Wait, cancer can be inherited?

Can confirm, they are the best. I have seen them in the wild and at my local zoo, and they are the cutest!

It is not a bad thing that they are not in a zoo... They are free! Be happy for them.

@@nuamarusaenz6548 Many animals in zoos are also free. In the wild most animals are not that free because not only do humans restrict their territories but other animals do too.

Bury my head in it's chest feathers

Until It falls on you

U mean both of them?🤣

@@nandhasaran definitely. I love the crew behind this show

Good one😩👌

Ok professor what ever you say

@@conqwiztadore2213 hes right. That's the basics of aquatic versus terrestrial animals. If you can still come on land and move around, you're not fully aquatic.

R.I.P., Great Auk with Big Dreams.

Yeah, but they were big enough to ride on their backs as they swim, or piggyback on land.

Yesss, I second this

Poli saanam

They were 🐘 that got lazy and lost Thier legs but kept Thier tusks

@@conqwiztadore2213 imagine

@@conqwiztadore2213 Laziness had nothing to do with it. Diving deeper than many whales is hard work, and digging out molluscs from the sea bottom with their tusks is too.

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@Michael F. Tommey 😂😂

So mysterious that there isn’t a single fossil of the necessarily very long transition periods between major evolutionary stages of literally any species.

Fun fact, penguin came from the Great Auk, which was a flightless cousin of guillemot and razorbills and were called pengouin in many languages (scientific name is pinguinus actually ^^). And in french, we call the auks "pingouin" and the penguins "manchots" (literally armless XD), which cause a great confusion when translating english "penguin" ^^

It is a Latin and Italian world (I'm Italian), should be pronunced as it is wrote

Vitringur love it!!!

She pronounces it like we do in Sweden, we say pingvin, I find it quite cute!

Because that's how science works. Always aware of the own "shortcomings".

I would have gone with reh-teh mi-ra-bi-leh, but potato, potato. Point is, Latin doesn't have silent-e spellings (or any other silent letters really).

@@eritain Exactly. Whether you Anglicize the final "e" as an "ee" sound, or whether your keep it Romance as an "eh" sound, the point is that the "-bile" in the word "mirabile" is not pronounced like the bile stored in our gall bladders. "Mirabile" is Latin for "miracle" (lit. "spectacle" or "a thing to behold"), and is pronounced accordingly.

Probably no problem outrunning it on land but no doubt could easily catch you in the water. But I think we are "fish" too large for us to tempt their appetites.

The DORUK doubt

I don't think that's true. But maybe some day they'll discover one. Crossvallia and Waimea were only slightly larger than an average human male.

@@dondragmer2412 p. Klekowskii was nearly 7 feet tall and anthropornis was 5'10"

@@killerqueenisbestmanneko8419 neither of those are larger than humans. Neither of those "easily dwarf" humans. The tallest man ever was closer to 8ft than to 7ft. Were I live 6ft 6inches is not uncommon for men. 6ft is about average height here. If you want to dwarf and almost 7 ft man you need to he atleast 14ft tall.

@@dillongage7628 i have never met someone over 6'5". And that was only once. Most people i see are in the 5'0-5'10" range l

Supposedly it has to do with land predators that will eat their eggs, and possibly an inability to withstand warmer temperatures as they get closer to the equator. I'd like to know why we don't have river penguins - there are river dolphins...

They are not adapted to the land predators of the north, like polar bears and wolves.

There are penguins that live as far north as the Galapagos Islands just south of the equator. Perhaps competition from other sea birds such as auks prevented them from moving further north.

I wish they had stayed big. Giant penguins are way cooler than elephants and whales.

Only half sea creature though. It's a terrestrial animal first and foremost

@@nicodarsh So what should we call seals, sea lions and walruses? Land or sea creatures?

I believe their closest relatives are albatrosses which is funny because they have the largest wingspan of living birds

@@cintronproductions9430 Strictly speaking, cetaceans are the only trully marine tetrapods we have today. Seals and the othe pinnipeds are semi-aquatic.

Cintrón Productions sea creature since they only come to land to breed for the most part as well as occasionally rest, and one species the Northern fur seal, only comes to land to breed and spends about 80% of its life at sea thousands of miles from any beach or shore, making it the most pelagic of all pinniped

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Puffins